Tag: OpinionDigest

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper pauses while addressing supporters at an election night gathering in Calgary, Alberta, on Oct. 19. Canadians voted to Justin Trudeau to the prime minister's office.Â (The Canadian Press via AP)

The free world has lost its leader

Dan Hannan · October 26, 2015 4:01 am

Hillary Clinton willÂ be questioned when she testifies under oath before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Oct. 22. (AP file photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Seven questions for Hillary at the Benghazi hearing

Matthew Whitaker · October 22, 2015 4:01 am

Massachusetts would rather spend millions of dollars and delay testing by a year than stick with a test aligned with Common Core education standards, The New York Times reports. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Americans like Common Core, but support is falling

Jason Russell · October 22, 2015 4:01 am

Rubio has taken some flak -- most notably, from Donald Trump -- for not showing up for votes. (Bloomberg/Drew Angerer)

Beltway Confidential

On campaign trail, the question: Where’s Marco?

Byron York · October 22, 2015 2:05 am

It costs taxpayers between $31,000 and $37,000 each year to house and provide services for a prisoner.Â (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Criminal justice needs a new investment strategy

alison-holcomb · October 21, 2015 8:22 am

Republican presidential hopeful DonaldÂ Trump is no dummy; he's running a campaign geared towards voters that many Republican candidates, with their emphases on tax cuts, free trade, and immigration reform, have perennially ignored. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Will conservative attacks on Trump miss mark?

Byron York · October 21, 2015 1:24 am

WhileÂ Russia's President Vladimir PutinÂ was in New York publicly scolding the United States in front of the U.N., the terrorist group Hezbollah, Iranian troops and Shiite fighters from Iraq were quietly preparing theÂ ground game in Syria.Â (Sergey Guneyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

The U.S. must step up and lead

Rep. Ted Poe · October 20, 2015 4:01 am

Hillary re-proved herself as an able debater (as she was in 2008, when she lost to Obama), but her skills in much else remain poor.Â (AP file photo/Karel Navarro)

Highly debatable

Noemie Emery · October 20, 2015 4:01 am

Power lines

Energy and Environment

Preparation, not panic, is best way to meet threat of potential EMP attack

Mark Weatherford · October 20, 2015 4:01 am

Disagreement over legalization has politically held up efforts to reform the rest of the immigration system. (AP Photo)Â

Immigration can be wonderful, when it’s legal

Dan Hannan · October 19, 2015 5:00 am

Debbie Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard, speaks to the media after the passage of legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives, at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.Â Brittany Maynard became the long-awaited face of the right-to-die movement.Â (AP Photo/Carl Costas, File)

Doctor-prescribed suicide is never the answer

anne-sommers, lindsay-baran · October 19, 2015 4:01 am

At the first Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders called for "tuition-free college," echoing Barack Obama's free-junior-college proposal.Â (AP Photo/John Locher)

Democrats’ debate: No solution for economic inequality, no interest in economic growth

Michael Barone · October 19, 2015 4:01 am